MIT Spinout 3D Prints Building Trusses From Recycled Plastic
Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering research, 3D prints structural trusses from shredded single-use plastic fused with fiberglass, including a... read more »
MIT Researchers Let Users Repair AI-Generated 3D Models Before Printing
MIT CSAIL, with Google and Northeastern, built software that generates 3D models from prompts and lets users fix printability defects with language and... read more »
Elegoo Day Sale 2026: The Four Best Prices, And How The Rest Compare
Elegoo Day runs to September 29 with up to 54% off. Four prices are the lowest we have on record, the material tiers... read more »
FibreSeek Opens Pre-Sale of FibreSeeker 3 Continuous Carbon Fibre Printer
FibreSeek has opened a limited global pre-sale of 500 FibreSeeker 3 printers, a desktop machine that lays continuous carbon fibre into plastic parts.
University of Amsterdam 3D Prints Ice Structures Without Supports
University of Amsterdam physicists have developed a way to 3D print structures out of ice that need no extra supports and melt back... read more »
RMIT 3D Prints Titanium That Floats
RMIT engineers have created a 3D-printed titanium material that floats in water even after severe damage, a candidate for jetties, buoys and marine... read more »
University of Waterloo 3D Prints Diamond-Shaped Electrodes for Flow Batteries
University of Waterloo researchers 3D printed a diamond-geometry electrode that improved redox flow battery performance by 52 percent in lab tests.
University of Maine Launches 30-Foot 3D-Printed Offshore Boat
The University of Maine launched a 30-foot 3D-printed boat designed for offshore speeds near 40 knots, skipping a new mold for every hull.
ORNL Combines 3D Printing and Electroforming for Leak-Free Nuclear Parts
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and A.J. Tuck combined 3D printing and electroforming to make leak-free HIP cans for nuclear and energy components.
MIT Researchers 3D Print Modular Blocks for Shape-Changing Smart Devices
MIT researchers have 3D printed a set of modular building blocks that stay electrically connected no matter how you compress, stretch, rotate, or... read more »
Queen’s Belfast Team 3D Prints Dissolving Microneedle Patch for Skin Cancer
Queen’s University Belfast pharmacy researchers have 3D-printed a dissolving microneedle patch that carries two skin-cancer drugs in the resin itself, in a single... read more »
WSU Team Use AI to 3D Print NASA’s GRCop-42 Copper Alloy
Washington State University researchers used AI to find process settings that 3D print GRCop-42, a NASA copper-chromium-niobium alloy used in rocket engine combustion... read more »
USC Researchers 3D Print $30 MRI Coils for Infant Heart Scans
University of Southern California researchers have 3D printed flexible MRI coils in under 10 minutes for about $30, and tests showed roughly four... read more »
Kansas State Tests Off-Site 3D-Printed Concrete Storm Shelter Modules
A Kansas State researcher is printing full-size 4-by-4-foot concrete modules off-site, then assembling them as storm-shelter blocks meant to take tornado winds and... read more »
LLNL Team Prints Ceramic Waveguide Lasers By Direct Ink Writing
A Livermore team 3D-printed an all-ceramic waveguide by extruding ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet filaments within an undoped garnet matrix and then drying, sintering,... read more »
Heidelberg Team Designs Recyclable Polymer for Light-Based 3D Printing
A Heidelberg University team has designed a light-curable 3D printing polymer that a chemical trigger can take apart at room temperature. Printed parts... read more »
MIT turns pine-cone mechanics into 3D-printable adaptive materials
An MIT team used category theory to break a pine cone's humidity response into independently validated building blocks, mixed some of those blocks... read more »
Tel Aviv Team Creates Bioactive Ink for Precise 3D Printing
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a bioactive 3D-printing ink that pairs high printing precision with enhanced cell adhesion and antibacterial activity.... read more »
EPFL 3D-prints tiny drones that fly on sound alone
Engineers in EPFL's MICROBS Lab have 3D-printed hollow cavities that convert sound waves into thrust. The cavities power miniature boats and ultralight drones... read more »
3D Printed Coral-Inspired Scaffold Reprograms Immune Cells to Heal Bone Disease
Researchers have developed a 3D-printed scaffold that reprograms immune cells to repair bone damaged by steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (SONFH), a... read more »
